The news of the siege of Luojing by 200,000 Chu troops made the capital of the Daning Dynasty turbulent and unstable, and all kinds of violent crimes became more and more intense, and almost everyone knew that the situation was over, including the Qi soldiers who participated in the crime, they all took advantage of the Chu army to enter the city.

And the people of Luojing are no longer lambs to be slaughtered, and the people of Luojing, who are unbearable to be harassed by the Qi army, have spontaneously organized themselves and set up riot squads to defend their homes.

The violence became more and more bloody, and there were constantly lone Qi soldiers besieged and killed by the riot squads, and hundreds of Qi soldiers and riot squads were constantly fighting bloody battles in the streets, and bloody corpses were everywhere, making the entire capital full of violence and turmoil.

At this time, Luojing still had 30,000 defenders, which were the last 30,000 loyal to the King of Qi, and it was the prince's guard of Huangfu Yuan, who had followed him for many years, and was commanded by the general Luo Wei, who no longer cared about the situation in the capital, and he concentrated on the final defensive deployment against the encirclement of the 200,000 Chu army.

Luo Wei also found the weakness of the Chu army's reluctance to pay a heavy price to capture Luojing, so he made defensive arrangements for this weakness, focusing on defending the city gate and Luoshui, and the troops were insufficient, and he recruited more than 10,000 young and strong people in the city to help defend the city.

In order to prevent the Chuzhou naval army from entering the capital from Luoshui, Luo Wei ordered people to dig thousands of wooden stakes at the entrance of Luoshui into the city, forming an underwater barrier, and ordered the army to pull up a long iron cable to barrage the river, and built a large water village on the river.

In fact, Luo Wei also knew in his heart that the artillery of the Chuzhou Navy was sharp, and it was difficult for him to stop the Chuzhou Navy with these arrangements, and the Qi army was gone, but he had to defend it to the last moment with the mandate of heaven to buy time for the King of Qi.

At night, this is the first night of the Chu army's siege of Luojing, in a large mansion close to the Changxia Gate in Guide Fang, more than a dozen people are urgently discussing countermeasures, this house is the mansion of Luojing's famous Haoqiang Cui Yaowu, Haoqiang is also a powerful local unofficial figure, such as the Liu boat line in Xingyang County, several major families in Weiyang County in Donghai County, etc., all belong to local Haoqiang, and there are many Haoqiang in Luojing, such as Qi Ruifu Commercial Bank, Donglai Commercial Bank, Baifu Commercial Bank, etc., but in the first Yongqi Coalition Army besieged Luojing War, With the large number of people fleeing from Luojing, more large families have chosen to leave temporarily, so that the heroes in the capital have basically disappeared, and very few remain, Cui Yaowu of Guide Fang is one of them.

Cui Yaowu is a native of Luojing, his family controls the Luojing Sancheng rice industry, and has his shops in both the South and North markets, but in the turmoil of the past two months, his business has suffered heavy losses, and almost half of the rice stored has been forcibly requisitioned by the Qi army, which has aroused his extreme dissatisfaction.

Cui Yaowu is about 50 years old this year, and he looks like a thin and withered old man, but he has vision and courage that ordinary people do not have.

"The Qi army is undoubtedly defeated, I think Yongzhou will be the turtle in the urn sooner or later, whether our Cui family can get a development opportunity in the new dynasty in the future, the key is to see if we can seize this opportunity."

"Is the patriarch trying to lure the Chu army into the city?" An older clansman asked, "Exactly!" ”

Cui Yaowu whispered to the clansmen: "I took the opportunity to send rice today to look at the city defense of the Qi army, and found that there are many loopholes in it, the number of defenders is too small, and we can't take care of these loopholes, if we can seize these loopholes and open a way for the Chu army, it will be a great contribution to our family, and there will be our benefits in the future." ”

"I wonder where the patriarch wants to start?" Another young clansman asked.

Cui Yaowu smirked, "There is a loophole in our Guide Fang, have you thought of it?" ”

More than a dozen clansmen reacted at the same time, and said in unison: "The clansmen are talking about Yishui? ”

"Exactly there!"

Cui Yaowu nodded, and said: "I have asked our children and young people in the fang to join the recruited soldiers of the Qi army, and they will defend on the Yishui River, and if they act randomly, they can do great things, and I have already sent the second child to the Chuzhou military camp."

．．．．．．．． 200,000 Chu troops surrounded Luojing, not to pull out a long company camp to surround Luojing, but to divide into four large battalions, stationed in Luojing's east, west, north and south, echoing each other, at this time it was early winter, the north wind was howling, the weather was cold, the sky was cloudy, and the first winter snow was coming.

Just as Luo Wei judged, the Chu army did not have a plan to forcibly attack the city, Huangfu Wujin did not want to pay a heavy price for the attack on Luojing, he advocated the soldiers who surrendered without a fight, he knew that the food in the city was about to run out, the military and the people's hearts were unstable, it can be said that the general trend has gone, there is no need for him to attack the city on a large scale, the riot squad spontaneously organized by the people in the city will soon launch an uprising, the inside and the outside should be together, open the city to welcome the Chu army into the city, he is waiting patiently.

But things went even more smoothly than he expected, and someone came looking for him that night.

At night, Huangfu Wujin was discussing military affairs with several generals, and a report came from outside the tent: "Your Highness, there is a man who claims to be a big local family in Luojing and asks to see him."

"Bring him in!"

After a while, the soldiers brought a middle-aged man in his forties into the big tent, and the man stepped forward and knelt down, "Xiaomin Cui Yaojie knocks on His Royal Highness King Liang!" ”

"Who are you, and what urgent do you want to see me?"

"Returning to His Royal Highness King Liang, the Xiaomin family is the second largest rice merchant in Luojing, Cui Ji Rice Shop, our family is deeply poisoned by the Qi army, and we are willing to help the Chu army enter the city."

"I see!"

Huangfu Wujin smiled and nodded, "I don't know how your family wants to help me?" Get up and speak. ”

"Your Highness!"

Cui Yaojie stood up and said respectfully: "Our Cui family's mansion is in Guidefang, and there are two grain wharves built on the Yishui River that passes through Guidefang, with more than 50 grain ships, of which 30 have been forcibly requisitioned by the Qi army, and more than 20 shed boats are hidden by us in the mansion, and we can use more than 20 ships to transport the Chu army from Yishui into the city." ”

Huangfu Wujin frowned, "Isn't there a Qi army defense on Yishui?" ”

"Yes, but there are only more than 300 people, most of them are the children of my Cui family and the young people in the fang, we bribed the officer who guarded the Chang Xia Gate, and he allowed us to guard our homeland."

Huangfu Wujin walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, he glanced at this Cui Yaojie, and asked with a faint smile, "How do you make me believe you?" ”

"Your Highness!"

Cui Yaojie hurriedly said: "Xiaomin is staying in the army as a hostage, if there is any falsehood, His Highness can kill me." ”

"If you stay in my army, who will contact the news?"

"Your Highness, there is also a disciple of my Cui family outside the barracks, who can lead the Chu army into the city."

Huangfu Wujin nodded, and ordered the soldiers on the left and right, "Take him down." Good student hospitality. ”

The soldiers took Cui Yaojie away, and Huangfu Wujin turned around and asked the generals, "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Long was a little worried: "I'm worried that it may be Luo Wei's plan." ”

Zhang Yannian next to him smiled: "I think it's okay, you can send an army to test, if you can break through, we will take Luojing City tonight." ”

Huangfu Wujin smiled, in fact, he also thought so, sending a small number of people, even if it was a strategy, it would not be a big loss, he glanced at Zheng Yannian, who was eager to try, and said with a smile: "Are you willing to do this?" ”

Zheng Yannian couldn't help it for a long time, Huangfu Wujin had made a promise in advance that he would take the lead in attacking Luojing and seal the county duke, how could he let go of this opportunity.

Zheng Yannian was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "I am willing to be a pioneer!" ”

"Good!"

Huangfu Wujin immediately ordered: "You can lead a thousand elites into the city from Yishui, if you can take the Changxia Gate, I will count you as the first merit." ”

"Obey!"

Huangfu Wujin said to Zhang Long again: "You can lead 50,000 troops to wait outside the Changxia Gate, if Zheng Yannian takes the Changxia Gate, you will immediately lead the army into the city." ”

Zhang Long arched his hand and said: "Obey orders!" ”

He arranged them one by one, and at this time, Zhou Yanbao, the deputy governor of the navy who had been standing next to him, said in a hurry: "Your Highness, attacking Luojing, the navy is the most convenient, how can Your Highness forget our advantages?" ”

Huangfu Wujin smiled slightly, "I haven't forgotten, I'm just doing some rehearsals for the future attack on Yongjing, I can't always let the brothers of the navy make meritorious contributions, and I have to give other brothers some opportunities for meritorious service, but the navy can do some cooperation and strengthen the momentum, tonight you can lead the navy to attack Luojing from Luoshui, and you don't have to worry about attacking Waikou City, you just have to take the palace city." ”

Zhou Yanbao was overjoyed, and immediately agreed: "I understand that I will take the palace city and capture the emperor alive!" ”

．．．．．．．．． Yishui originates in Luanchuan County at the southern foot of Bear's Ears Mountain, flows through Song County and Yichuan, passes through Yique and enters Luojing, passes through the city, and finally flows into Luoshui in Yanshi, which is the most important irrigation water source in Luojing area.

Yishui diverted and walked when passing through Luojing, all the way into the city from Xingjiaofang, all the way into the city from Guide Fang, the two waterways are very narrow, can only allow small boats below 300 stone to pass, like the Chu army sailor warship can not pass, along the banks of the river are planted with dense willow trees, so that 'Yishui to see the willows' has become a scene in Luojing.

At the first watch, more than a dozen Qi soldiers and more than 300 recruited sturdy guards in Guide Fang, the entrance of Yishui into Guide Fang is very small, just enough to accommodate a hundred stone boat to pass through, and the water is very deep, the underwater undercurrent is turbulent, and it is equipped with an iron fence, it is not easy to enter the city from here, in contrast, it will be easier for the Chu army to enter the city from Luoshui.

If the Chu army wanted to enter the city by water, it would never choose here, so the Qi army did not have a tight defense of this waterway, and only sent a small number of soldiers for reconnaissance and defense, and the rest were handed over to the recruited local elites.

Nearly half of the more than 300 local elites are the children of the Cui family and the rice shop, and the rest are the children of the Fang, who have no armor, carry knives and bows and arrows, and guard both sides of the waterway.

It was already one watch, the sky was beautiful, the sky was full of dark clouds, there was no starlight and moonlight, the night was very thick, and no one could be seen more than a dozen steps away.

The Cui family had already split up and invited more than a dozen Qi soldiers to the Cui Mansion to go to the banquet to rest, and at this time, there were no Qi soldiers on both sides of the waterway, all of them were young men recruited by the Cui family.

Cui Yaowu saw that the agreed time had arrived, so he waved his hand, and someone ran to inform the action, more than 20 small boats sailed out of the Cui Mansion Waterway not far away, entered Yishui, and soon sailed to the entrance of the city wall, at this time, a Cui family disciple at the head of the city said hello, indicating that the patrol team had gone away, the iron gate of the waterway slowly opened, and more than 20 small boats sailed out of Luojing City.

At this time, in a warehouse by the Yishui dozens of steps outside the city, thousands of elite Chu army had been ambushed, and the boat went out of the city.

Under the cover of the thick night, the boat sailed towards the city, and at this moment, the sky was full of snowflakes, and the first winter snow in Luojing came.

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(To be continued)